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Category Archives: CAT III- Asian
Film Review: A Day Without Policemen (Mou jing shi fen) (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he’s been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47′s and .45′s invade his terrain, he must over come his fear of that weapon… More
Film Review: Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985) – CAT III
Oniroku Dan: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (original title)
SYNOPSIS:
Ran Masaki plays a beautiful teacher who is transferred to a remote mountain school where she is gang-raped and abused by the male students.REVIEW:
Plot: Completely irrelevant. The disc does not come with subtitles, which is a moot point because they would be useless. When subtitles are irrelevant you know you are not watching the Cat III version of Citizen Kane. Cat IIIs are… More
Film Review: Organ (1996) CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Two undercover detectives investigating a black market organ harvesting scheme find themselves in trouble when the black market criminals find out who they really are. One detective is able to escape but the other is left behind and subjected to a variety of horrible things. The detective that was able to flee vows to find his missing partner and exact his revenge on his abductors. Will our hero be able to save his… More
Film Review: Entrails of a Virgin (1986) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A pair of sleazy soft-core porn creators take their models out in the middle of nowhere for a photo shoot. On the way back they get lost and end up having to stay all night at a house they had come across. What they don’t know is that there is a demon stalking the area who calls this place home, and he enjoys killing anyone he comes in contact with. It becomes a… More
Film Review: Rusted Body – Guts of the Virgin 3 (Gômon kifujin) (1987) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler.
REVIEW:
Director: Kazuo “Gaira” Komizu
Cast: Keiko Asano, Saeko Kizuki, Ayu Kiyokawa, Ryota Sakanishi, Hirokazu Yoshihara, Hitomi Kazama
The Examination: Sicko exploitation film from 1987 featuring a few disgusting scenes of torture along with mondo sex. Right up your alley, you say? Careful what you wish for…
Here comes a gross shocker… More
Film Review: Splatter Naked Blood (Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku) (1995) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A scientist named Eiji has developed a new chemical called ‘MySon’ that can turn pain into pleasure. He decides to put three girls who attend the experiment held by Eiji’s mother in the test. Meanwhile, Eiji has a crush on one of the girls, Rika. ‘MySon’ influences the girls gradually. The gluttonous woman wishes to have the best food in the world, but she ends up eating herself. The vain woman wishes to… More
Film Review: Intruder (1997) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Yieh Siu Yan is a deranged women wanted by the authorities of Taiwan. She will steal the identity of a lonely young woman to get back to Hong Kong. After that, she successfully passes every custom point and decides to become a hooker to kidnap a lonely guy to complete his enigmatic evil plan. The victim is Chen Chi Min, a poor divorced taxi driver who has a lot of family problems and… More
Film Review: Cruel Restaurant (Zankoku hanten) (2008) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
There’s something strange going on with the filling in those dumplings the town’s raving about… What the hell are they made of?
REVIEW:
Director: Koji Kowano
Cast: Mihiro Taniguchi, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse, Yusuke Iwata, Miho Funatsu
The Examination: You truly won’t believe how the dumplings are prepared in this gonzo sex ‘n splat circus.
One thing about Asia’s Cat III films, you can count on the limits being pushed to the utmost extreme just short of… More
Film Review: Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979) – CAT III
(aka Star of David: Beauty Hunting)
SYNOPSIS:
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REVIEW:
BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER (1979)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Producer: Yoshio Murai & Yoshihiro Yuhki
Writers: Masaaki Sato & Jiku Yamatoya
Actors: Yuka Asagiri * Yuko Asuka * Shu Domon * Hiromi Namino * Hiroshi Nawa * Asami Ogawa * Rei Okamoto
Every movie begins with the potential that you may be getting into something worthwhile, rewarding, or totally off the wall and… More
Film Review: Devils Fetus (1983) – CAT III
Mo tai
SYNOPSIS:
A monster preys on innocent victims.
REVIEW:
DEVIL FETUS (1983)
Director: Hung Chuen Lau
Writer: Man Wah Tsang
Editor: David Wu
Producer: Wei Lo
Actors: Eddie Chan * Yung – Chan Chin * Pak – Kwong ho * Tan Lau * Saan Leung * Hsiu – Ling Lu * Shai fei Ouyang
Well, I quit my scumsucking job that I hated with the whitehot intensity of… More
Film Review: All Night Long (1992) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Three youths of differing walks-of-life develop an unhinged friendship after witnessing the gory slaying of a young girl and ultimately turn into murderers themselves on a night filled with bad karma.
REVIEW:
Director: Katsuya Matsumura
Cast: Eisuke Tsunoda, Ryosuke Suzuki, Yoji Ietomi, Hiromasa Taguchi, Ryoka Suzuki, Yumi Goto, Yumi Kayama
The Examination: Hard-to-find Japanese extreme series makes its way to DVD courtesy of Tokyo Shock in the first of three films overseeing the violent side of… More
Film Review: Red Room 2 (New Red Room: The Broken Dolls ) (2007) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Daisuke Yamanouchi directs this shocking film that depicts a card game in which the winners dole out increasingly violent and perverse punishments to the losers. Just how creatively cruel can the winners get? And how much abuse will the losers take before they quit the twisted game? Miyuki Katô, Salmon Sakeyama, Yuka Takahashi, Yuuken Yoshida and Yukio Kokago star.
REVIEW:
Well if you’ve read my review on Red Room you already know the… More
Film Review: Red Room (1999)- CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A cult hit amongst gore enthusiasts, this campy splatter flick takes its plot cues from reality TV game shows. Four young people are locked in a room and play cards. When someone loses, they must endure some of the most gruesome torture imaginable. Luckily, the winner walks away, or limps rather, with $100,000. The success of this bare bones horror gem, directed by Japan’s V-cinema staple Daisuke Yamanouchi, spawned a sequel even more… More
Film Review: Red to Kill (Yeuk saat) (1994) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A psychopathic rapist, who attacks women that wear red, runs a home for retarded children and rapes a girl there who he sees wearing a red dress, leading to a revenge plot by the girl’s social worker
REVIEW:
Written by: Wong- Ho- Wah
Directed by: Billy Tang Hin-Sing
Starring: Lily Chung Suk-Wai, Ben NG Ngai- Cheung, Money Lo Man-Yi and Bat Leung Gum
Hell-o, seekers of the extreme. Look no further… More
Film Review: Daughter of Darkness (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
Police suspect a young teenager who was horrifically abused by her family and raped by her father of finally snapping and slaughtering them all.
REVIEW:
DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS
Director: Kai Ming Lai
Writer: Kai Ming Lai
Actors: Yuk – Kwan Chan * Pia Chin * Lily Chung - Kai – Kui Ho * Hugo Ng * Tony Wong
My big movie date is tonight! For a comic
… More
Film Review: Grotesque (aka Gurotesuku) (2009) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A young couple get abducted by a perverse sadist named Tachikawa who ties them both up in his basement and begins torturing them. If either of them happens to pass out from the intense pain, he revives them with smelling salts before going back to work.
REVIEW:
Grotesque is really a mix of emotions. Brilliant, disgusting, well written, sadistic and painful to your sense beyond belief. Now if you are like me when… More
Film Review: Flower of Flesh and Blood (Guinea Pig films) (1985) – CAT III
The second video, Za ginipiggu 2: Chiniku no hana (1985) is said to be based on a snuff film sent to the director Hideshi Hino by a crazed fan. In it, a man dressed as a samurai drugs a woman and proceeds to cut her apart, and finally adds her body parts to an extensive collection. The snuff film rumour has been shown to be a contemporary legend; the film was in fact… More
Film Review: The Butcher (2008)
SYNOPSIS:
Relentlessly gruesome, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jin-Won’s torture flick chronicles the making of a snuff film from two perspectives: that of the sadistic producers and that of the unfortunate “stars.” Their terror captured through vérité-style camera work, the victims are made to endure the agonizing screams of their fellow captives before meeting their own grim fate at the hands the titular butcher in his bloody abattoir..
REVIEW:
Chances are you may have a… More













